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Description: | Bishop Hugh le Puiset founded Sherburn Hospital in 1181, originally as a leprosy hospital. When it opened it housed 65 lepers. By the 15th century records show only two inhabitants suffered from the disease. Others accommodated here suffered from a variety of chronic maladies. It is doubtful whether they received any successful medical treatments for their conditions. However, the hospital certainly provided a home, food and care for these individuals who, due to the added infliction of grinding poverty, would certainly have succumbed much quicker to death in the outside world. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Grimm, Samuel Hieronymus | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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